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Meet You By Hachiko
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What would you do if your best friend lived half a world away—and suddenly vanished?
Loner Grace Ryan feels completely invisible. Awkward and shy, she can't seem to get ahead in her studies, social circle, or new relationship with her childhood best friend. But discovering Tokyo street fashion ignites her creativity and leads her into an unlikely online friendship with a J ...more
Loner Grace Ryan feels completely invisible. Awkward and shy, she can't seem to get ahead in her studies, social circle, or new relationship with her childhood best friend. But discovering Tokyo street fashion ignites her creativity and leads her into an unlikely online friendship with a J ...more
Paperback, First Paperback Edition, 304 pages
Published
December 31st 2020
by HachiPress
(first published February 25th 2020)
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I liked this story.
The story regarding the two main characters and their likeness and strength come through beautifully. I love HEA. Even though this isn’t a love-love story.
However some things I noticed where the time stamps didn’t make sense to me. Time zone differences were backwards?!?! And Japanese wasn’t translated.
I get that this story took a long time from start to publish, so I think that may have been lost in the re-reads for beta testers.
As a first novel, I think it was overall well ...more
The story regarding the two main characters and their likeness and strength come through beautifully. I love HEA. Even though this isn’t a love-love story.
However some things I noticed where the time stamps didn’t make sense to me. Time zone differences were backwards?!?! And Japanese wasn’t translated.
I get that this story took a long time from start to publish, so I think that may have been lost in the re-reads for beta testers.
As a first novel, I think it was overall well ...more
“Sayonara is for long goodbyes. Don’t be gone so long.” Kana raised her hand in a stilled wave. “Let’s say ‘see you later’ instead. Mata ne.”
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I love the plot building, and though the reading pace somewhat slow for me, but it's the kind that not tedious at all but rather exciting and one I really enjoyed. While the narration going back and forth from Grace to Kana, that really helped to make the storyline well arranged -- a style of writing that I do prefer.
The storyline still in the kind ...more
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I love the plot building, and though the reading pace somewhat slow for me, but it's the kind that not tedious at all but rather exciting and one I really enjoyed. While the narration going back and forth from Grace to Kana, that really helped to make the storyline well arranged -- a style of writing that I do prefer.
The storyline still in the kind ...more
I really enjoyed reading "Meet you by Hachiko" for many reasons, the first being that I lived in Japan for nine years on American military bases (1996-2000, 2004-2010). Because I know some basic Japanese language and I was able to go to Tokyo a couple times, I could easily put myself in the story. I got to see firsthand how amazing is the Japanese culture of consideration for others, honesty, hard work, giving, cleanliness, respect for your elders and many other lovely things I wish were part of
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The book was too slow paced in my opinion, though I started liking it more after page 150 or so.
I loved the way the author described the characters and how they're completely different but still drawn to eachother. I liked the plot and the ending but it took me so long to finish this book because of the slow pacing.
In a few parts, the japanese wasn't translated to english, which left me confused because I had no clue as to what it meant. However I did appreciate the love this book has shown for ...more
I loved the way the author described the characters and how they're completely different but still drawn to eachother. I liked the plot and the ending but it took me so long to finish this book because of the slow pacing.
In a few parts, the japanese wasn't translated to english, which left me confused because I had no clue as to what it meant. However I did appreciate the love this book has shown for ...more
A nice YA about friendship and Japan. It brought back memories from my trip there a few years ago. The friendship portrayed in this book looks so pure and at times unrealistic. I believe that when you portray people from another culture it is a tricky one. It does show an understanding of Japanese culture.
Nov 05, 2020
Loren Greene
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japan,
young-adult,
asexual,
aromantic,
young-adult-contemporary,
fiction,
realistic-fiction,
teen,
high-school,
coming-of-age
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Loren grew up expecting she could be the next Gordon Korman, except she wasn't particularly funny, which was a bit problematic. Then she wanted to become an exchange student in Japan, and use her newfound fluency to consume Japanese comic books by the boatload. That didn't work out as planned, either.
Instead, as an adult, she earned an English degree in her hometown of St. John's, Newfoundland and ...more
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“Sayonara is for long goodbyes. Don’t be gone so long.” Kana raised her hand in a stilled wave. “Let’s say ‘see you later’ instead. Mata ne.”
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